A speech by this man before the National Press Club declared a "defensive perimeter" running from th
A speech by this man before the National Press Club declared a "defensive perimeter" running from the Aleutians through Japan to the Philippines, which Stalin and his puppet Kim Il Sung decided to test since it left Korea on the other side. A White Paper overseen by this man defended his predecessor's policy of refusing armed intervention in the Chinese civil war, arguing that it would have been fruitless to defend the regime of Chiang Kai-Shek. He was an early supporter of dismissing Douglas MacArthur from command of UN forces in Korea. Those stances earned him the ire of the red-baiting faction in the US Senate, and Joseph McCarthy waved around a list of 205 people under his authority, alleged "card-carrying members of the Communist Party." For ten points, name this architect of the North Atlantic Treaty and of containment, Secretary of State during Truman's second term..
A speech by this man before the National Press Club declared a "defensive perimeter" running from the Aleutians through Japan to the Philippines, which Stalin and his puppet Kim Il Sung decided to test since it left Korea on the other side.
{Dean Acheson}